I finally found the recipe I was looking to post on Friday; sorry for the delay. In a way, it was worth it though. It really gave me time to review this gem, and come to the realization that this may be the single most important nutrition plan I could post for a great many of my readers.
This nutrition plan actually comes from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, and is given to heart patients prior to risky surgeries. It helps get their bodies into shape, as well as losing potentially dangerous weight before they go under the knife.
So please, of all the recipes I post, understand how very life changing this particular plan can be for you. It’s so important, in fact, that I have even attached a PDF version HERE for you to download and print.
I started this plan anew today. I challenge every single of you to give it a try as well. You’ll be amazed how well it works, and how good you look and feel.
Sacred Heart
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 or 2 cans of low salt stewed tomatoes
- 3 large green onions
- 1 large can/box of low salt beef broth (no fat)
- 1 pkg lipton soup mix (chicken noodle)
- 1 bunch of celery
- 2 cans green beans
- 2 lbs. carrot
- 2 green peppers (or red, yellow, orange)
METHOD:
- Season with Mrs. Dash, pepper, curry, parsley, if desired, or hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce. No salt.
- Cut veggies in small to medium pieces.
- Cover with water.
- Boil on high heat for 10 minutes.
- Reduce to simmer and continue to cook until veggies are tender.
***This soup can be eaten any time you are hungry during the week. Eat as much as you want, whenever you want.***
DRINKS:
- Unsweetened juices
- Herbal tea
- Cranberry juice
- Skim milk
- Water
- Water
- Water
DAY 1:
- Any fruit (except banana). Cantaloupes and watermelon are lower in calories than most other fruits.
- Eat only soup and fruits today.
DAY 2:
- All vegetables.
- Eat until you are stuffed with fresh, raw, steamed or canned veggies. Try to eat green leafy veggies and stay away from dry beans, peas, or corn.
- Eat veggies along with the soup.
- At dinner time tonight reward yourself with a big baked potato and real butter. Don’t eat any fruits today.
DAY 3:
- Eat all the soup, fruits and veggies you want.
- Do not have a baked potato.
- If you have eaten as above for three days and not cheated, you should find that you have lost 5-7 pounds.
DAY 4:
- Bananas and skim milk.
- Eat at least 3 bananas and drink as much milk as you can today, along with the soup.
DAY 5:
- Beef and tomatoes: you may have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and a can of tomatoes, or as many as 6 tomatoes on this day.
- Eat the soup at least once today.
DAY 6:
- Beef and veggies, eat to your heart’s content of the beef and veggies today. You can even have 2 – 3 steaks if you like with green leafy veggies but no baked potato.
- Be sure to eat the soup at least once today.
DAY 7:
- Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice and veggies.
- Be sure to stuff yourself and drink the soup.
- You can add cooked veggies to your rice if you wish.
By the end of the 7th day, if you have not cheated on this nutrition plan, you should have lost 10 to 17 pounds. If you have lost more than 17 pounds, stay off the nutrition plan for two days before resuming the plan again.
This nutrition plan results in rapid, safe weight loss.
The secret lies within the principle that you will burn more calories than you take in. It will flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being.
This nutrition plan does not lend itself to drinking any alcoholic beverages at any time.
Because of the fat build up in your system, go off the nutrition plan at least 14 hours before any intake of alcohol.
After being on the nutrition plan for several days, you will find that your bowel movements have changed. Eat a cup of bran or fibre.
The soup can eaten any time you feel hungry during the seven days. Eat as much as you wish. Remember the more you eat, the more you will lose. You can eat broiled, boiled, steamed or baked chicken instead of the beef. Absolutely no skin on the chicken. If you prefer, you can substitute steamed fish for the beef on only one of the beef days. You need the high protein in the beef for
the other days.
Continue on the nutrition plan as long as you wish and feel the difference both mentally and physically.
DO NOT – DO NOT:
- No bread, alcohol, carbonated drinks
- Fried foods
DO – DO – DO:
- Drink 6 – 8 glasses of water a day
- Any drinks from the drink list
ROC'S RAMBLINGS 
Thanks. I think I might just have to give this a try.
Question though: How would it effect any exercise I do? Say If I went running every other day for half an hour to an hour?
I run 10k per morning, then do a morning workout routine. I workout from 12 – 1 PM using body weight, or free weights. I then workout in the evening 3x per week.
This nutrition plan will INCREASE your energy dramatically. You will find you are able to workout harder and longer.
No offense, Roc, always love reading your stuff but
http://www.dietheart.org/aportal/9/index.php?fullEssayID=3202
You may want to check your sources. Not saying it is bad, just not quite ‘as advertised’
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I always appreciate everyone’s comments.
This is my third time following this plan, and it’s always worked for me. I like how they qualified that like anything else, you have to follow what it says, and it can indeed work.
Would I use this as a regular lifestyle choice? Probably not.
Is it authentic? According to that article, no. But then again, who qualified the article?
At the end of the day, it’s like everything else I post about here. Try it. See if it works for you.
Again, I appreciate your feedback.
I’ll give this a go I think – though with a couple of minor modifications to the diet to make it workable over a longer period, slowing down the weight loss but making sure it stays off.
I think this diet might kill someone as small as me, though I like the idea of the soup. I was on almost entirely meat and veggies/fruit when I was in Reykjavik, and after 5 days of that, returning to mostly grains in the States sent me into withdrawal.
I think the reason I like this particular plan so much is because it emphasizes the good stuff: no carbonated drinks, not an overabundance of fatty meats, etc, etc.
As mentioned, I wouldn’t use this as a regular lifestyle diet either, but it is a wonderful tool for understanding how the body works and why.
As always IMO the best diet is proper exercise. I have ate and lived off fast food and soda for the past 5 years of my life with no issue. I run a minimum of 2 miles every day along with the common mixtures of upper and lower body workouts and I am in perfect shape. Also with the running and only drinking soda I have never felt light headed or dizzy and have never been dehydrated.
Anyway good luck with this diet.
Proper exercise is always important, agreed.
As for the rest of your comment, I would be a skeptic except I have a corp mate who is the same. This woman drinks nothing but soda, eats nothing but junk food, and is in fantastic shape. It is a true rarity.
If you are young, enjoy it while it lasts. If you are like my corp mate and a rare anomaly, consider yourself fortunate, as you are most definitely not the norm.